As Coordinator of the Architectural Studies B.A. and specialist in the history of architecture and urbanism my work centers on architecture's relationship to culture, place and memory. My recent teaching projects include the study of pre-industrial "green" building principles (Architecture Across Cultures), the incorporation of 3-D computer modeling in a course on the history of Urban Design (Great Spaces), and the development of a custom iPad app for a short-term study abroad course (Art and Politics in Paris: Reading Power in Space and Image) developed with Professors Jennifer Germann of Art History and John Barr of Computer Science. My scholarship focuses on architecture in France and Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries; recent publication projects explore, in these contexts, the illustrated architectural travel album as a medium of cultural exchange and the competing claims of history and contemporaneity in the urban setting. When not teaching, researching or photographing buildings I might be found cooking, reading, swimming, or traveling with my husband, a landscape architect, and our 15 year-old daughter.

For images from Art and Politics in Paris and the Great Spaces SketchUp project, see my Photo Gallery (at left).

Selected Courses

Architecture Across Cultures

Great Spaces: An Introduction to Urban Design

Memorable Cities

Architecture from Renaissance to Revolution

Seminar: The Poetry of Architecture

Seminar: Architecture as Cultural Encounter

Tutorial: Foundational Texts in Architecture

Tutorial: Architects Write

Art and Politics in Paris: Reading Power in Space and Image (team-taught w/J. Germann)